Fun Quiz

Smack that Squirrel..bad link!

It wiil work guys, they must be busy. Try putting "QI annual quiz" direct to your browser.

I have now determined that all answers seem to begin with 'E'

9- Eighteen

2 - Elephants

Heck I'll crack this on my own soon. At least we can argue about the tie-breakers.

So far I'm missing 1,6,8,10,16,18. I haven't checked all yet but at least one is dodgy. I'll summarize when others have had a bash. Meantime tie-breaker 19 is " Tell us something interesting about Easington, County Durham" ! WHAT !! Apart from mining trivia, that's going to be hard. Saying I once went out with a girl from nearby won't impress them.

http://www.qi.com/equiz/

I think 10 should be Ear (it is a E quiz) !

<groan>. I reckon it's a cathedral that begins with E, but haven't checked yet. If only somebody literate like ER was about we could crack question 1.

OK you nailed that one John ! Excellent.

One web-check said that "Korvalappu" was Finnish for Walkman, but that doesn't fit the E pattern. I have to go very soon, but keep on checking. I'm trying to think of spherical objects connected with a river ye ( electron ? surely not). I'll check back later , and hope our resident cat has found the link !

I take it Kris has not been following the TV program - each series has answers beginning with the same letter, and this was the fifth series...

Q18

So do I check for 'earmuff' or 'earbag' ! It's great fun to check this stuff on-line as you can keep re-trying. I'm currently on about 10/18, and haven't even got around to the tie-breakers yet.

I've tried a few - but with no success. There is even a reference (somewhere) to the tags used for identifying cattle.

I'd go with earmuff since only one is an earbag. However, with your luck they'll want earwarmer!

I need to know what language the word translates as 'muff' or 'bag' else I'll be in trouble if I can't check !

According to Websters on-line translation dictionary, lappu is Finnish for: bit, label, pad, patch, piece, shred and slip.

So I'd go for Earpiece

Update : No 16 answer is "eggs" (we eat 173 each in 2006).

If anyone is getting frustrated because they can't access the quiz say so and I'll post it all.

Somebody please explain the missing questions then we can argue about the 3 tie-breakers !

For those who don't want to check a link ;" No 8 : Which spherical object owes its name to the Ye river ?" For those who check , the picture of an eye is not 'Elephant'.

We have until April 8th to solve this ! More than half way there -we can do it people.

8. Edam cheese, originally a spherical object, owes its name the damming of the Ye river Yedam, which became Edam, in Holland.

Erin should be the 28th name for girls in wales.

http://www.raisingkids.co.uk/fea/fea158_babynaming_engnames.asp

Hey dude you got it ! I was racking my brain for E names. Charsley scores in at no 14 with Erin ! Visit the site man - ya can check answers 1-by-1. Excellent detective work.

Ans. to Q6 is Ethelred

Q2 - Dunk & Mary both Elephants - tenuous links for Mia.

Elephants is the answer! Well done!

To be fair, Kris had this in his post #4 - but I'm still wondering about Mia - any answers?

Duh! I was searching Mia - should've been Mya!

Definitely all Elephants.

Even MIA was one.

... so we're 110% on that one!

Ans. to Q12 is E (in the cyrillic alphabet) (sorry for poor graphic - original would hog too much screen-space).

It takes a genius to get no. 13.

Suspected that, but didn't have a chance to zoom a graphic big enough for a proper comparison.

Well done!

BTW - Liked the joke .

That is truly impressive !

I'mm gonna go back and see how much our combined score is............

#1. Epitasis, meaning "stretching out or intensifying," is derived from the Greek word of the same name (though epi means "upon" and teinein means "to stretch"), and is that part of a classic Greek play where the plot thickens or intensifies.

Chazl

Hey folks,we are so close ;

1 - Epitasis

2 - Elephants

3 - Enchinacea

4 - Earwigs

5 - England's

6 - Ethelred

7 - Edison

8 - Edam

9 - Eighteen

10 - Ear

11 - Englebert

12 - E

13 - Einstein

14 - Erin

15 - Eritrea

16 - Eggs

17 - Eton

18 - ???????

It sounds like its going to be ear 'something' but I'm not sure what yet. I didn't try pluralizing any of the options.

Congratulations to all on your collective knowledge ! Anybody care to take a punt on the last 3 tie-breakers ?

19 Tell us something quite interesting about Easington, County Durham

20 Tell us something quite interesting about eagles

21 Tell us something quite interesting about e-mails

Feel free to use answers up to 18 and enter the silly competition, or post fun trivia on the last 3 questions here. It's just an end of year giggle, though I have no idea why the entry deadline is April 8th. CR4's collective minds seem to have smashed this one easily (apart from some minor work need on Q 18)

18 -

#18 - earflap

Chazl

Nice one Chazl ! As far as I know there is no internet site where anybody has got all the answers yet. CR4's collective brain did it within about 24 hours - not bad considering the number of minutes each person has spent looking at this. In a live TV quiz I think we could assemble a world beating team.

I've yet to come up with any good answers for the last 3 questions, but will report back with anything good that comes to mind.

Congratulations all round, and a very happy New year to you all. In Oz they are probably about 3 hours away from it. Wherever you all are, I hope 2008 will be a good one for you, and as the Vulcan's say, "Live long and prosper".

Q 22 - Tell us something quite interesting, like where is the best site on the internet.

Anybody who doesn't know the answer must go hide in shame !

No.19 - Something about the Easington pit disaster in 1951? (apologies for the location of the link)

Or, keeping up the "e" theme, a location for the film "Billy Elliot"

Pit disasters are ten a penny, but I like the Billy Elliot one - I know it was 'oop' North, but was it Easington ? Oh yeah, I just checked. You is right. Even it's twin isn't interesting. Oh no this is a tough one. It's not far from a town called Pity Me, which is sort of funny, even if disconnected. If only we had towns like America !

(It's not yet new year so I don't feel beholden to my pledge to try and stay 'on-topic' ) I'm, guessing they mean social intercourse, aka discussion. Perhaps two rivers met there ? It could be a race track thing ?

Maybe it will all just slip into the sea and the question will be null.

We seem to be on 16/18. Need to go through & find (by elimination) which ones are still wrong.

Must do some invoicing & get back to it.

No John, we have all 18 ! I checked each individually. Maybe I mis-spelt some in my listing (?) but we definately have the lot. Watch for the pluralizations on some, earwigs etc. Start at Q1 check it, then add Q2 check it etc.

Ok, got it!

Q3 - Enchinacea s.b. Echinacea

Q11 - Englebert s.b. Engelbert

18/18 !

Now what the heck do we do about the Easington problem ! The locals will have an unfair advantage. I've long since lost contact with the girl I mentioned dating from up there. Off the top of my head all I know is that they once had a big colliery under the sea. I'd have to go google ga-ga to find a good response for that one.

With eagles I was thinking along the lines of hunting eagles, or those French flags as depicted in the TV series "Sharpe". For e-mails it's got to boil down to statistics or the origins of the phrase. I'm going to have to phone a few trivial friends on these 3. Maybe I should take 50:50, or should I ask the audience ? Sorry folks - it's a Brit joke. Where is that Stinky Pete when you need somebody to cough !

Well **** me ! eagles have their own quiz !

Can't see much of interest for Easington on Google Earth .

Here is the only thing I found that would constitute being interesting about Easington.

Castle Eden Dene is of particular note for the fame of its natural beauty and also being the home of the rare Angus Butterfly.

How 'bout this:

Easington is the only place on earth with dolomitic limestone cliffs on the coastline.

If that isn't "something interesting", I don't know what is!

Or, in keeping with the "E" theme, this:

The first documentary evidence of Easington was in 900 to 915 when Ealfred, son of Britulfine came fleeing the Vikings and sought the mercy of Bishop Cutheard who granted him the lands of Easington and surrounding townships.

This Easington Village is one happenin' place, I'm tellin' ya!

Cos you're EnviroMan I have to give you top marks so far on this one ! This is gonna kill people when I ask in a short while as a new years eve party game !!

Please inform as to the status of the party-goers post-game! I hope you took a few prisoners...

Nobody came close to CR4's score. I sat there in smug merriment that as we trashed 'em all ! I did give due credit ( though it was tempting to tell folk I'd done it myself). The Einstein picture answer was brilliant.

I've just learnt that there's a pub called "The Easington" in Bloxham Rd., Banbury, Oxon.

Don't yet know anything about it - or how it came by the name. I'll try to get some more on it.

Do you seriously think we're going to believe this intel mission ? You'll be sat nicely on a bar stool yacking to the locals and supping ale. Damn, I wish I'd thought of that !

There may be potential here for the e-mail question.

Going OT, I still say charge money for each e-mail. It would cut the crap, and money raised could be used for some useful purpose. Think about how much spam you get sent (and hopefully deflect) and all the crappy stuff that leaves you thinking " Why the **** am I reading this". It's just too easy for bosses etc to e-mail every poor sod who has better things to do. I seem to spend half my life looking at such e-mail thinking "why the heck are you telling me this". Verbal diarrhoea has gone digital. I'm well placed to say so.. If it's informative, fine. If it makes me laugh, fine. 90 % is a waste of space. OMG I'm going into rant mode ! I'll step outside and do the decent thing. < BANG>

A couple eagle facts:

Largest eagle nest discovered was over 1 ton (2000 lbs) called The eyrie.

While there was some conflict over 'turkey' and 'bald eagle' for being the National Bird of America. Benjamin Franklin voted out 'bald eagle' for being cowardly and considered it a thief.

An eagle's beak and talons grow continuously, because they are made of keratin, the same substance as our hair and fingernails. Eagles molt in patches, taking almost half a year to replace feathers, starting with the head and working downward. Not all feathers are replaced in a given molt. An eagle without feathers, talons, and a beak would die of starvation and exposure.

I've met some fat birds in my life , but that takes the biscuit ! Oh god , now somebody is going to use Brit Idiom and say " who ate alll the pies".

Look , I was never here, never done it............

Eagles also are more scavenger than hunter. They are Known for defecating on other than a Eagles fresh kill rendering it into trash for any one else. Very nasty. When they get old they look like a patch work quilt of brown and white.

Hunting a Turkey is tricky.

But the Eagle fits the Politicians better.

Brad

"When they get old they look like a patch work quilt ..." - That sounds like me.

"Hunting a Turkey is tricky" - especially in Waitrose at 6:00pm on Christmas Eve.

"But the Eagle fits the Politicians better" - I'd like to witness that!

Peace & joy, Happy New Year, John.

"But the Eagle fits the Politicians better" - I'd like to witness that!

Looks like a big hawk, but acts like a vulture. Two faced.

Brad

I take it you didn't hear of the bird flu - all Waitrose stocks of organic turkeys were destroyed.

We had curry for Christmas dinner instead - just as filling, but it doesn't stay around for so long!!

We all seem to agree korvalappu is either ear warmer, ear bag, ear ***, most of the answers are one word. I'd go with earmuff but I'm in the U.S. What do you normally call them in your country?

Chazl (post #31) had it right with 'Earflap' - it checks out.

E

Did we win!!!! Did we win!!!

Do all the poster get a cut????

I'm so excited i think i"m gonna